Paper egg-carrier



(No Model.)

J. BURNS.

PAPER EGG CARRIER.

No. 353,637. Patented Nov. 30, 1886.

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l/VVE/VTOR ATTORNEY WITNESSES:

IINTTED STATES P TENT OFFICE.

JOHN BURNS, 'OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PAPER EGG-CARRIER.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,537, dated November 30, 1886.

Application filed July 13, 1886.

tion; Fig. 11, a plan view of the straw-board blank as cut and creased preparatory to its being folded in box form. Fig. III is ascetion through the end of the package at Fig. I, showing how the folded ends and flaps of the box are united.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a cheap and durable package for holding and transporting one dozen eggs.

The difficulty experienced by those Who have preceded and in my prior efforts in forming a box of a single piece of straw-hoard and like tlexiblematerial has been in the weakness of the ends of the package, where the greater strength is required. To derive the greatest benefit from these package-carriers, they must be delivered to the shippers in a knockdown shape, and they must be so formed that the blanks can be readily folded by unskilled labor, and the ends of the packages must be stiff enough to remain upright under the covers which hold the flaps and ends locked together. Heretofore the ends have been tenoned into the sides of the package, as in packages I have made; but this fastening, serving for the middle filler of the package,is too fragile for the ends. Again, flaps have been folded over the ends and locked; butthis leaves the ends and flaps separate, so that the pressure of the eggs will force out their top portions beyond the ends of the cover, permitting the flaps to become unlocked and the ends to unfold. I remedy this difficulty by uniting the ends and flaps by the same devices which unite the flapsthat is, considering one end of the package, a notched tongue is formed on one flap and a slot is formed in the other flap and also through the end of the package, and the tongue is put through both Serial No. 207,877. (No model.)

whole in detail is hereinafter fully described andshown.

A represents the bottom; B, the sides; I, the ends; E F, the flaps, and C C the cover of the package. The cover is folded on the creases a a, the sides on creasesb b, the ends on creases c, and the flaps on creases (Z. On the ends of the tlaps F are formed notched tongues G II, and in the flaps E are formed slots 6, and centrally in the ends I are formed slotsfin such positions that whenthe flaps E are folded onto the folded ends I the slots c and f will come opposite to each other, that the tongues G may be put through both slots and unite the flaps and ends, as more clearly shown at Fig. 3.

Care must be taken to make the slots of so long as the tongues G are wide, and the distances between the letters 2 z, y 1/, and m 00 equal, so that when the tongues G are put through the slots and the notches H forced down to engage the lower margins of the slots the lower edges of the flaps will come even with the bottom of the package and their top edges with the top edges of the ends I. The twopart cover C will then bear on the ends so formed and hold the tongues G in place. To complete the package,afillcr consisting offive transverse strips and one central longitudinal strip is locked together in the ordinary manner to form compartments for one dozen eggs. The package at Fig. I being broken away shows the position of some of the fillers.

I claim as new- A package egg-carrier the exterior of which consists of the bottom A, sides B, ends I, and two part cover 0, the flaps F, provided with notched tongues G H,and the flaps E, with slots e, and the ends with corresponding slots, f, the

sides, ends,covcr, and flaps folded, as specified, 

